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I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's…

— Cenk Uygur

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

— Anna Quindlen

I've heard [Bernie] Sanders comments, and it's really caused me to wonder who's left in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Under his…

— Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.

— Nina Easton

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

— Chris Matthews

I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in…

— Matt Taibbi

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

— John H. McWhorter

As far as the low-information segment of the population - the vast, vast, vast majority of which votes Democrat - if you are a…

— Rush Limbaugh

There's only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half African-American. Whether that will make…

— Ralph Nader

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

— Glenn Beck

Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at…

— Noam Chomsky

Obama is very much an establishment sort of guy. The whole image of him as a transcendent figure was based on style rather than…

— Paul Krugman